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Sunday, October 14th, 2007
In this recent story writer Frank Miele attacks the New York Times’ decision to publish classified military secrets. His argument is that publication endangered Americans and essentially amounted to treason.
The Open Records Project would agree with part of Miele’s argument but offer a caveat and some perspective.
Yes, it would seem that the […]
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Monday, May 14th, 2007
The Department of Defense has banned soldiers serving overseas from accessing YouTube, Metacafe, IFilm, StupidVideos, and FileCabi, the social networking sites MySpace, BlackPlanet and Hi5, music sites Pandora, MTV, 1.fm, and live365, and the photo-sharing site Photobucket.
The ostensible reasons given for the ban are excessive bandwidth consumption, compromed security, and reduced productivity.
One might draw comparisions […]
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